To study the feeding patterns of frog-biting mosquitoes, scientist Priyanka de Silva of the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka had to identify both the mosquitoes and the frogs involved. Her team collected more than a thousand of the mosquitoes, which they could identify at leisure. But identifying the frogs proved a challenge due to the lack of an updated and simple field guide on Sri Lanka’s amphibians.De Silva and other herpetologists, under a team led by Dilan Chathuranga, wanted to have a key to the identification of amphibians, so they pored through the relevant literature and mentioned their research requirement to Anslem de Silva, the elder statesman of Sri Lanka’s herpetology community.To read full story visit: https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/new-photo-guide-is-most-comprehensive-yet-on-sri-lankas-amphibians/